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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Exclude TEMPLATE utility from IFCID 3

As for each call of the TEMPLATE utility an accounting record is written and as we use lots of TEMPLATE utilities, the overall utility accounting records are diluted. So we need the possibility to exclude the SMF data for TEMPLATE utility calls fr...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Additional Option to 'Act...

The command 'activate function level ... ' with and without option TEST checks if a Function Level is eligible for the group. However members that are quiesced or failed etc.. are not included in the check. Please provide an additional option to a...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Availability of Max used License Scheduler managed license token in LSF job records

License Scheduler keeps updating LSF job records for the actual number of license tokens used by the job. At the end, only the last used value of the license token is kept in the job records. LSF should record the maximum number of token used by L...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Not under consideration

PAW - Be able to share the link to a specific folder

PAW url api allows to open a specific asset (workbook, view,...) by defining a path in the url. For example : https://PAW_URL/?perspective=dashboard&path=/shared/Workbook. It would be very useful if we could target a specific folder as well. F...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Support of formula TM1PRIMARYDBNAME() in PAW and TM1Web

In PAX we are using formula TM1PRIMARYDBNAME() to detect the current TM1 server / instance. In PAx this formula works fine, but neither in PAW nor in TM1Web this formula is supported.It would be great to support this function, as we're publishing ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to merge data in data sets instead of overwriting

Currently when edit data set in My Data Sets in the way to upload a new file into existing DB then existing data in DB will be overwritten. The ability is requested to be able to merge the new data with existing data in DB. A comfortable way would...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Shift Click to Select Multiple Rows when in Preview View

We would like to select multiple rows when in Preview View. Typically we do this by holding down the shift key while clicking on additional rows. Example: when in report preview view, the user cannot select the top data row, and then shift-click t...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Informix incremental backups (L1)

Hi, L0 and L1 backups of informix are taking almost same time since it seems that is limited by disk reading performance: we are using IBM spectrum backup to backup. From IFX logs we see that they are using /usr/informix/server12/bin/onbar_d...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

FAP Service.properties - Password Encryption

Hi, at our client Atlantic Group d.d. during upgrade of PA,CA,CC client set request to eliminate all hardcoded passwords on any file on all models. We successfully eliminated them by using inbuilt encryption (e.g. in PA) or if password was in .bat...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Hide application with no access

Hello, When a user connect to Planning Analytics Workspace, PAW pull all the PAL application in the UI, even the one that the users don't have access. We would like an option to only show the PAL application that the user have access to. Thanks,Alex
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration